Hidden inside reproofs sit proofers and reproofs, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 108 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
proofers and reproofs tie for the highest Scrabble score from reproofs at 13 points. The top 10 of 108 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in reproofs: one comes from rearranging its letters, and reproofs itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are proofers and reproofs, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in reproofs produces 6 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are proofer, reproof, and spoofer, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling reproofs turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poorer and proofs. For points, the strongest play is proofs — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reproofs. If a familiar word is all you need, start with proof, roofs, ropes, and sorer. For points, the strongest plays are profs, proof, and spoof — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in reproofs produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with oops, poor and poos. For points, the strongest plays are fops, poof, and prof — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling reproofs turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with for, per and poo. For points, the strongest play is fop — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reproofs. If a familiar word is all you need, start with of, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in reproofs plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in reproofs and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
reproofs is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for reproofs. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
reproofs is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing reproofs unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are proofers and reproofs, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from reproofs earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in reproofs produce 108 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.